{"id":139697,"date":"2016-10-11T19:20:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T17:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=139697"},"modified":"2016-10-11T17:32:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T15:32:24","slug":"how-much-money-you-should-be-earning-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/139697\/how-much-money-you-should-be-earning-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"How much money you should be earning in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Data published by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) shows how much money South Africans take home each month according to the type of job they have.<\/p>\n

Stats SA’s Labour Market Dynamics Report for 2009 to 2015, showed that the average South African wage was R3,200 in 2015.<\/p>\n

When broken down into industries and set occupations, the research agency found that the mining and utilities industries paid, on average, the most – R7,500 per month. This was up from R5,000 and R6,000 respectively in 2010.<\/p>\n

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The household sector, including domestic workers, paid the least – R1,500 per month on average in 2015.<\/p>\n

Salaries for skilled occupations increased dramatically, StatsSA showed. In 2015, the median monthly earnings of the skilled employees was R12,400 compared to R3,500 and R2,000 earned by the semi-skilled and the low-skilled employees\u00a0 respectively.<\/p>\n

Over the period 2010 to 2015, within the skilled occupational category, median monthly\u00a0 earnings\u00a0 increased for Managers and Professionals but declined amongst Technicians.<\/p>\n

Both managers and professionals earned above R10,000 over the period 2010 to 2015\u00a0 while for\u00a0 technicians,\u00a0 the median monthly earnings ranged from R6,000 to R8,400.<\/p>\n

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These are the 25 jobs with the rarest skills in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

This is the average salary in South Africa by race and industry<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Data published by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) shows how much money South Africans take home each month according to the type of job they have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":127615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-139697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139733,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139697\/revisions\/139733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}